How to Properly Use Cloud Storage | Rsync Encrypt Tutorial

This video shows you how to properly use cloud storage with Rsync and encryption. This is vital to have a basic understanding of and I show you how to backup and restore encrypted files via any cloud service.

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[HamBands]

On your cron example at 20:00, you should include a value for minutes or the cron will run that crontab job once a minute from 3am to 3:59am.

[xseuz]

I LOVE YOU MAN! I JUST LOVE YOU! I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH MANUAL BACKUP TO CLOUD FOR A MONTH WHILE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO ENCRYPT AND AUTOMATE IT. YOU SOLVED IT IN A 20 MINS VIDEO DAMN!

[alexbright]

Love this. Don't forget to use the -P flag to watch progress.

[someITGuy]

Hi Chris, this tutorial is AWESOME! Just installed rclone on my machine an played a little with sync, copy and move and encryption / decryption to a personal OneDrive account. This works like a charm. Kudos!

[miriamramstudio]

Either I fell asleep or the Rsync part is missing ((((

[richardsaylor]

Nice video and very well done. I would like to add that it is a good idea to use the full path to rclone (/usr/bin/rclone) in crontab. In my opinion it isn't a good idea to depend on what the default path is set to. I once found out the hard way that what cron was actually running wasn't what I expected. This applies to scripts too.

[AngryPacman]

didn't know about rclone, thanks!

[FirstLast-mlyf]

Rclone is awesome. I've got symlinks on my desktop to my Rclone mounts for Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox, and I can simply drag and drop stuff between services or from my machine. Super transparent.

[Ilsh]

Excellent video (like usual), but my advice is not using "rclone sync", instead use: "rclone copy". If (by mistake) you will delete a source file it will be deleted in the remote backup. It is not secure way of doing backups...

[totetoBT]

And why exactly was "rsync" needed? Is it dependancy of rclone that needs to be installed manually?

[benriful]

Oh! BTW, you know you "can" use rclone inside Windows as well. It does all the same stuff there, though its mount option needs some user space file system driver as a dependency.
Just thought I'd mention it for those who want to stick with windows for some reason. You're not totally left in the dark.

[Aemilindore]

Exactly what I needed! Post this on Reddit!!

[cgw]

Thanks Chris for the video and especially the section on encryption.
rclone has a nice feature that allows you to mount the cloud-service as a directory on your local system
rclone mount dropbox: /mount/point
I find this easiest as I can then use cp to transfer files back and forth without making any allowance for the fact that I am communicating with the cloud. I'd be interested to know if this works with encryption.
One problem I did have was that after a failed upload I lost the sharing information for the files (which I could only change using the browser anyway), but perhaps that's to be expected.

[spaceiswater]

Hi Chris, I just wanted to say that was one awesome video thank you so much. I really enjoy how you put it into simple basics so its very easy to understand.

[nihilistic]

I thought this was an `rsync` tute, but it seems to all be `rclone`. Is there a timestamp for the `rsync` bit? I just want to know the right options.

[ForrestRhoads]

Excellent, useful video, Chris. Thank you so much.

[lualgomo]

Is there a VERY light option of encryption algorythm I can use?
I don't need to be as secure as I need it to be fast.

I'm talking about stuff as simple as n shift-left operations of the bytearray. Secure enought that so you can't open it unless you know some basic stuff about computers and fast enough a potato computer can do it in an instant.

Why?
Because most of the stuff I have in my computer (main drive) is not that sensitive, and I want to offload the task to a raspberry pi.

...Why?
Because it is faster to use sshfs and change de computer that is mounted instead of setting all this up again in case I want to (a) change drive, (b) move the folder or (c), do it in another computer.
Is slow, yes, but more convinient for *me*

[WRa]

i use pcloud. however the purpose of pcloud is to share files, not backup storage. pcloud offers a audio player along with being able to download the files. files and bandwidth are tracked so you know how many downloads or how much bandwidth is used (useful for my purposes, as in not needing to link back to my home computer to share said files)
i use a 24TB NAS for my backups, as i do not trust cloud providers with my personal data, encrypted or not.

[RegErvin]

Always learn something new in your videos! At some point, I hope you do a video on Ansible. I'm wanting to use it to backup laptop configs to deploy to different ones...

[rtwg]

Any tips if you have a bunch of stuff ALREADY on Dropbox to encrypt it? Great video. Will be implementing ASAP.